Medicaid, Insurance & State Policy
This federal program provides health insurance primarily for adults age 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
Studies show that chronic disease, life expectancy, and maternal outcomes all demonstrate this type of inequality across U.S. racial groups.
What is systemic racial health inequality?
Approximately ___ of LGBTQ+ adults, and up to___ of trans folk or gender non-conforming people (specifically) have reported experiencing discrimination in healthcare.
56% & 70%
This term refers to the persistent differences in health outcomes linked to race, gender, geography, and income.
What are health disparities?
This North American country provides single-payer healthcare funded through taxes.
What is Canada?
The U.S. has the most expensive healthcare in the world, costing roughly this much per capita.
What is ~$14,570?
This type of medicine emphasizes mind-body-spirit connection and community ties in many Indigenous cultures.
What is holistic care?
This population group has historically been excluded from medical research due to concerns about “protecting” them, causing major data gaps.
Who are pregnant women?
Native American populations receive health services primarily through this chronically underfunded federal agency.
What is the Indian Health Service (IHS)?
This Latin American country was the first to offer universal childhood vaccines.
What is Mexico?
This U.S. state has one of the highest uninsured rates because it refused to expand Medicaid
Texas
Black and Native American women are 2–3 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes compared to White women.
What is racial disparity in maternal mortality?
Transgender individuals frequently struggle to access this type of medically necessary treatment due to insurance exclusions.
What is gender-affirming care?
This country implemented telemedicine programs to reach Andean and Amazonian regions.
What is Peru?
Venezuela has lost over ___ of its healthcare workforce since 2014.
50%
This 2010 law expanded Medicaid eligibility and required coverage of preventative services.
What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
Suicide rates are particularly high among Indigenous youth in this age range.
What is 15–24?
This term refers to how women’s health issues are understudied or minimized in medical education and research.
What is the gender data gap?
Variation in county-level access to hospitals with obstetric services explains why rural counties have higher maternal mortality.
What is the rural hospital access gap?
This European country has the world’s oldest universal healthcare system, established in 1883.
What is Germany?
Medicaid funding is determined partly by how much each state spends, meaning richer states receive more of this type of federal support
What is federal matching?
In recent years (2023–2025), this group has the lowest life expectancy among major U.S. racial/ethnic groups.
Who are American Indian & Alaska Native (AI/AN) peoples?
Women are more likely than men to have their symptoms dismissed as “anxiety,” especially during this medical emergency.
What is a heart attack?
This U.S. region shows the slowest increase in maternal mortality since 1999.
What is the Northeast?
This Asian nation’s healthcare system is famed for low-cost, high-quality care and a mandatory insurance program.
What is South Korea?